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Several important questions remain unanswered about the details of evolution and crustal structure of passive continental margins. These questions include the location of the boundary between oceanic crust and continental crust, the nature and present location of the continental rift which precedes the opening by sea-floor spreading and the origin of the Magnetic Ouiet Zone which often exists over continental margins.
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Talwani, M., Mutter, J., Houtz, R., König, M. (1978). The Margin South of Australia — A Continental Margin Paleorift. In: Ramberg, I.B., Neumann, ER. (eds) Tectonics and Geophysics of Continental Rifts. NATO Advanced Study Institutes Series, vol 37. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9806-3_17
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